Senior Software Engineer (AI Engineering)

Company: csit
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Type: full_time
Posted: Aug 19, 2026
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CSIT, an agency under Singapore's Ministry of Defence, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Engineering team. The role involves developing and deploying AI/ML services (e.g., LLM services), data pipelines, and tooling, with a tech stack including Python, Java, RDBMS/NoSQL/vector databases, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. Requires 3+ years of relevant experience in a quantitative field, technical leadership, and familiarity with microservices; only Singapore Citizens are considered.

As a Software Engineer in the AI Engineering team, you will develop, deploy and maintain applications, AI/ML services (e.g. LLM services) and data pipelines that support production AI services at scale as well as provide development tooling for our data scientists and product engineers. You will be responsible for designing and developing them in a performant, reliable and maintainable manner while leveraging pragmatic unit, integration and performance testing.

Responsibilities

  • Influence the roadmap and development of applications and pipelines
  • Deploy and maintain performant AI/ML services
  • Design, develop, deploy and maintain high-quality code following engineering and testing best practices
  • Work with data scientists, product engineers and users to enable new AI capabilities

    • Requirements (Minimum Qualifications)

  • Background in quantitative field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics etc) and 3 or more years of relevant work experience
  • Proficiency in Python, Java or similar programming languages
  • Practical experience with databases such as RDBMS, NoSQL, vector scores
  • Experience in software deployment, including with tools for CI/CD and other deployment processes
  • Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Good understanding of domain-driven design, microservice patterns and service-oriented architectures
  • Technical leadership experience such as mentoring other engineers or driving collaborations with other engineering teams

    • Nice to haves

  • Experience with Python web frameworks (e.g. Flask, FastAPI)
  • Experience in designing and maintaining data pipelines with high reliability/throughput requirements
  • Experience with deploying and maintaining AI/ML services (e.g. deploying LLM services via vLLM) for high reliability/throughput use cases
    • As CSIT is an agency under the Ministry of Defence (Singapore), only Singapore Citizens will be considered.
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